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Parish Activities and Volunteer Opportunities
First Holy Communion 2008 UPCOMING MEETINGS
Knights of Columbus
Meeting – Sunday, July 13th – rectory – 7:30 pm
Car Show Committee
Meeting – Tuesday, July 15th – gym – 7:00 pm
Elizabeth Ministry
Meeting – Tuesday, July 15th – Neri Center – 7:00 pm
Car Show set-up –
Wednesday, July 23rd – church grounds – 6:00 pm
Parish Car Show – Rally
– Food – Entertainment – Bingo - Friday, July 25th – church grounds
– 5:00 pm – 10:00 pm
MARCH for LIFE Parish Breakfast: July 27, 2008 - 7:00 am - 12:30 pm CHILDREN’S LITURGY of the WORD Children’s Liturgy of the Word is coming to St. Philip Neri Parish. It will begin in mid-September
Children in First Grade thru Third Grade will be eligible to participate.
We will need volunteers to be “homilists” (at least 8-10 people) and “escorts” for the children. The commitment is on a rotating basis. The training will take place in mid-June. Anyone interested in being involved with Children’s Liturgy of the Word, please contact Jeffrey Daley: 215-541-3120. The Ministers of Hospitality are just one of the ministries that are making an effort to create a “family” environment. However, we are in need of individuals to help with this program.
As a member of any family, we are committed to love and support each member. There is no difference in being a member of the St. Philip Neri Parish Community. It involves being an active participant by supporting all of our Church’s efforts to help us grow in grace.
Our primary need is to have a substitute list to draw from when one of our regular Greeters and/or Ushers are unable to attend the Mass they have selected. This truly will be a great help if you could lend some assistance. We also could use regular Greeters and Ushers for some of the Masses.
If you have any questions or would be interested in helping us out, please contact Dawn at 215-679-2160 or email at: dellis@netcarrier.com. You may also contact Doris at 215-679-6101 or email at: gmomdecker@yahoo.com.
H.O.P.E.
Do you need a FREE ride to appointments, store, bank, phone assurance, light housekeeping?? Volunteers are willing to respond to these needs. Please call H.O.P.E.!
Outreach Office: 215-679-2282 or Kathy & Bob Talbot: 215-541-0250. FRIENDLY VISITORS MINISTRY Many parishioners in our parish are lonely and homebound. They are in need of someone to visit with them, listen to them and share their joys and sorrows. Heed your Baptismal call to follow Jesus and love one another. The only requirement is that you have the willingness to listen. Your time commitment is entirely up to you.
If anyone is interested in becoming a Friendly Visitor, please call Sister Patricia Kelly at the Parish Outreach Office: 215-679-2282. ELIZABETH MINISTRY NEWS Can you remember when a brief conversation with your mom, sister or friend left you feeling energized and encouraged? The support of women for women is essential during the childbearing years-we all want to know that someone else understands our joys and sorrows and that someone does care.
The Elizabeth Ministry at St. Philip Neri Parish reaches out to women in our parish to celebrate the expectancy, birth or adoption of a child, to console and comfort a woman experiencing the frustration of infertility, the pain of miscarriage or child death and even the confusion of raising a child with special needs. In following the example of our Blessed Mother as she visited the expecting St. Elizabeth, we want to sincerely love and support women in their time of need and happiness.
If you would like to serve other women in our parish or if you know someone who could use an understanding friend, please contact LaRue Emmell at: 215-679-3086. BINGO-Thursdays 6:30 p.m., Kitchen opens 5:00 p.m. Donated baked goods are needed for Bingo. Soups needed for Bingo. If you would like to help call Rita: 215.679.7009. The St. Philip Neri Bingo Organization is seeking volunteers to help out with weekly Bingo on Thursday evenings in the parish Social Hall. We need callers, floor attendants and kitchen help to work only once a month or as desired. No experience is necessary and training will be provided. Please Note: You are not under any obligation to work Bingo on a weekly basis. If interested call Pete at 215.679.6942 or Sandy at 610.754.7896. CATHOLIC YOUNG ADULTS:
A calendar of social and spiritual events for Catholics in their 20's and 30's within the Philadelphia Archdiocese is now available at this website: www.stillcatholic.com/PHILLY.htm. ATTENTION: PARISH MEN 30 & OLDER Men’s Basketball BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GROUP When Jesus learned that his friend, Lazarus, was dead, He wept, along with others. You, too, wept at the death of your loved one. Jesus understands and continues to absorb your grief.
Through St Philip Neri Bereavement Support Group, you can be supported in your grief, and help others in their grief.
FMI please phone the Parish Outreach Office at: 215-679-2282. If you get a recording, please speak SLOWLY, and leave your name and number. R.C.I.A. ALPHA St. Philip Neri Craft Guild meets the first and third Tuesday of each month in the parish hall at 1:00 pm.
FMI call Connie @ 610.287.9829 Knights of Columbus - Fr. Leo Letterhouse Council #6614 meets every second Sunday of the month in the Council Meeting Room of the rectory. FMI call Stephan Adelsberger at 215.541.9358. The “SILVER SPIRITS” SOCIAL CLUB SILVER
SPIRITS TRAVEL CLUB –
CASINO
TRIP – DAY AT THE TROP!
Boy Scouts - Tuesday evenings in the parish hall from 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm. FMI call Mark at 610.754.6541 CY0 Sports - FMI: Kevin @ 215.679.5481. GET WITH THE PROGRAM!
What Program You Ask?
THE H.O.P.E. PROGRAM! H.O.P.E. is an anacranem for HELPING OTHER PEOPLE ENTHUSIASTICALLY. As you know, the greek word “THEOS” means GOD. “EN THEOS”
means IN GOD. So when you help
enthusiastically, you are helping IN GOD! You are helping the PEOPLE of GOD!
LIHEAP = Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program: Open Line, 452 Penn Street, Pennsburg, (215)-679-4112 can be contacted for help with heating bills. The contact person for LIHEAP is Linda Connell. FIRST FRIDAY ADORATION SCRIP is now available for purchase at all Parish Breakfast’s. As always, SCRIP will continue to be available through school or after each Mass. You still earn the same great 2% tuition credit or you can earn a $1.00 Bingo/Breakfast Buck for every $50.00 you purchase in SCRIP. The Bingo/Breakfast Bucks can be redeemed at any Parish sponsored Breakfast or at any Parish sponsored Bingo. PREPAID SCRIP will now be available YEAR ROUND. That means you can purchase any SCRIP listed on the Prepaid Order Forms anytime you want. Delivery time will still be approximately one (1) week from order date. Submit your orders through school or at the SCRIP table after Mass. If you have any questions, please call Agnes @ 215.679.0425 Effective immediately the following stores/restaurants have been added to our SCRIP program:
$25 JC Penney Disney Gift Certificates will be sold as prepaid orders only so if you are planning a trip to Disney World; please allow 1-2 weeks for delivery of your Disney SCRIP. The SCRIP that we sell under Red Lobster/Olive Garden is also good for Bahama Breeze, one of which is located in Disney World. Please note that you CAN PAY your Kohl’s and JC Penney charge accounts with SCRIP. Last but not least, we will do everything we can to get Wal-Mart back into our SCRIP program. If and when we do, you will be notified. SCRIP SELLERS NEEDED MUSIC MINISTRY - Always on our WISH LIST---more musicians, cantors and choir members! Organ Repair Fund -- Our M.P. Moller pipe organ is 40 years old and needs to be rebuilt. The proposal for the re-build is $71,000. If you are interested in making a contribution, drop an envelope in the collection basket or send an envelope to the rectory marked: Organ Fund. Thank you for you generosity. |
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